My accomplished friend and American roadside architecture
expert Agilitynut (yes that's
her real name) had occasion to look at this web site and said, "I'm
happy to see that you used the Long Holiday Motel's Roto-Sphere as
your Motels section icon. I did send you the link to the Milks' YouTube
old neon signs footage, right?"

And I said, ".....uh whut?"

The reason I put Long's Holiday Motel here is that
I made reservations and stayed next door in the same beautiful wooded
hollow, at the Island Resort, resolving a seven-year-old mental bookmark
from a previous trip through Gunnison, and thereby clearing my head
if only for a moment.

There was a far better reason, namely the coolest
single thing I've seen in the last twelve calendar months, but I had
no idea that the spiky Sputnik ball on the top of the Long Holiday
Motel sign once did THIS incredible trick:

It should have been obvious to me from the mechanical
workings on the ball but the Roto-Sphere was crafted, by Warren Milks,
to revolve and rotate two spiked hemispheres in opposite directions,
producing a mind-blowing visual effect, a fascinating bit of pop culture
history, and maybe the ultimate in eye-catching architecture.